Bengals tidbits

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Cincy

Bengals lose two, keep one
Steinbach, Wilkins move on, but team gives Watson 3-year deal
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

While the Bengals executed their plan of sitting back and assessing free agency, two of their top free agents - guard Eric Steinbach and linebacker Marcus Wilkins - left the fold Friday.
The Bengals re-signed third-down tailback and special teams player Kenny Watson to a three-year contract.

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Cincy

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Kelly ponders NFL possibilities
Bengals TE meeting teams, weighing offers
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

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Reggie Kelly took the call at noon Saturday as he was re-loading his car for another ride to the airport.
He opened a door, and the car beeped the annoying reminder that his key was in the ignition.
The Bengals free-agent tight end had returned Friday night to his Greater Cincinnati home from Atlanta, where he had received what he said was a "very nice" contract offer from the Falcons, who on Friday signed former Bengals linebacker Marcus Wilkins.

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Cincy

Hope lies with injured Bengals
Young players, healing players could provide lift

BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

For the third consecutive day, the Bengals on Sunday had no outside free agent visits to confirm.
Some fans are grumbling, complaining that the Bengals are sitting on enough salary-cap space to get creative and lure an impact player the likes of former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter, or ensure they bring back vital cogs such as tight end Reggie Kelly and safety Kevin Kaesviharn - especially after terminating the contract of nine-year linebacker Brian Simmons to save up to $3.4 million in 2007.

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ABJ

Bengals linebacker Nicholson gets work program, probation

Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Cincinnati Bengals linebacker A.J. Nicholson was sentenced to 60 days in a sheriff's work program and two years' probation for breaking into the apartment of a former college teammate with an accomplice and stealing items worth $1,700.
Circuit Judge Kathleen Dekker sentenced the former Florida State player Monday. He pleaded no contest to burglary and grand theft charges last month.

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Cincy

Call from Palmer sold Kelly

BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

Tight end Reggie Kelly said a late-afternoon phone call Tuesday from quarterback Carson Palmer persuaded him to take less money to stay with the Bengals.
Kelly said he would be staying in Cincinnati for three more years and that he left "a lot of money on the table" in Atlanta, Arizona and Oakland to remain a Bengal.
"That will be seven years with my hall-of-fame quarterback," Kelly told The Enquirer.

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Cincy

Bengals quiet in free agency
Team building with re-signing, draft

BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]


While other NFL teams - such as Denver, Washington and Miami - have made big headlines in the past week by signing free agents from other teams, the Bengals have been quiet since bidding opened Friday at 12:01 a.m.
That's because on Marvin Lewis' calendar, the 2007 free-agency signing period started in July 2006.
Last summer, the Bengals signed two of their top and most valuable players - starting offensive tackles Levi Jones and Willie Anderson - to multiyear extensions. Jones, Anderson and starting right tackle Bobbie Williams (who signed his deal in April) all would have been eligible for unrestricted free agency this month had they not re-signed.

 

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ABJ

Bengals' O'Neal pleads to lesser charge

Associated Press

BATAVIA, Ohio - Cincinnati cornerback Deltha O'Neal, one of nine Bengals players arrested over a nine-month period, pleaded guilty on Friday to a less serious traffic offense stemming from his arrest at a drunken driving checkpoint.
O'Neal, originally charged with driving drunk after being arrested on Dec. 9 at a checkpoint in Clermont Country east of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty to reckless driving.
O'Neal told Municipal Court Judge James Shriver that as a father of three small children, he realized the need to be more responsible.

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Cincy

League eyes off-field concerns
NFL Insider
BY MARK CURNUTTE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

With nine players arrested since Jan. 1, 2006, the Bengals are the NFL's poster bad boys.
So when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell held a meeting last month at the scouting combine in Indianapolis, he included Bengals coach Marvin Lewis and wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the discussion.
Night clubs and possible gang affiliations of NFL players were two of the topics discussed.

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Dispatch

NFL NOTEBOOK
Bengals sign former Buckeye Stepanovich
Saturday, March 17, 2007

ASSOCIATED PRESS


The Cincinnati Bengals signed free-agent center Alex Stepanovich to a one-year contract yesterday. Stepanovich, who played on Ohio State?s 2002 national championship team, was taken by Arizona in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL draft. He became the Cardinals? first rookie center to start every game.

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Cincy

Bengal punched by NFL rival
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

Imagine what practice would have been like.
Former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter was cited for misdemeanor battery after allegedly punching Bengals left tackle Levi Jones in the face in Las Vegas over the weekend, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The incident happened at a blackjack table in the Palms casino on Sunday night, the newspaper reported.

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[buckeyeboy]

I don't know which of these is more predictable: (1) Joey Porter running his mouth and punching someone or (2) a Bengal involved in yet another off the field incident.

 

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Dispatch

BENGALS
Jones allegedly attacked by Porter in Vegas casino
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Bill Rabinowitz
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Another Cincinnati Bengals player has become involved in a legal dust-up, but this time there?s a twist: The Bengal is the apparent victim. Linebacker Joey Porter, who recently signed with the Miami Dolphins after eight seasons with Pittsburgh, faces a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly attacking Bengals left tackle Levi Jones in a Las Vegas casino Sunday night. Jones was playing blackjack at the Palms hotel-casino with a friend when Porter and six others approached him from behind, a source said. Without provocation, the source said, Porter punched Jones in the face. Two necklaces were ripped off Jones? neck in the attack.

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[buckeyefool]

Nice the Bengals will start the 2007 season on Monday night football. Should be a good game and give a ideal of how the AFC North might look next year.


Monday night lights (again)
By GEOFF HOBSON
March 26, 2007

Updated: 7:50 p.m.

****> AUDIO: Listen to the Monday Night Football theme song PHOENIX, Ariz. ? The Bengals won?t waste any time this season getting national exposure at Paul Brown Stadium.
The NFL unveiled its prime-time teams for opening weekend Monday during the NFL's annual summit and Cincinnati makes its first-ever national-television opener in a Monday night game on ESPN against defending AFC North champion Baltimore.
"That is something that pleases us very much," said Bengals president Mike Brown after emerging from a morning meeting at The Arizona Biltmore where the owners were told the schedule of the opening weekend. The entire schedule is to be released April 5.

 

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Cincy

Brooks may be in the middle
Bengal good fit for key LB role
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]


John Thornton has heard the Bengals are going to draft defensive players in Rounds 1 and 2, and the ninth-year tackle wanted to make a point Wednesday in defense of his Bengals defense.
Thornton rattled off the list of the team's starting middle linebackers since he joined the Bengals as a free agent in 2003.
"That should be the leader," he said. "You need consistency."

 

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Cincy

Marvin connection may land linebacker
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

The Bengals are continuing their defensive veteran shopping spree.
Linebacker Ed Hartwell, who started eight games at middle linebacker for Atlanta last season, will visit the Bengals today and Friday, agent Harold Lewis said Wednesday night.
Hartwell, who will be 29 on May 27, was a fourth-round draft pick out of Western Illinois in 2001 by Baltimore. The Ravens' defensive coordinator was Bengals coach Marvin Lewis.